Numbers
Numbers 1:2-3 (NKJV)
Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their familles, by
their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,
From twenty years old and above-all who aro able to go to war in lsrael. You and
Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Author
- Moses
Date
- About 1400 B.C. (shortly before his death)
Theme
- God's guiding presence from Sinai to Trans-Jordan
Purpose
- The book of Numbers tells of the preparation and journey to the promise land.
- It describes the murmuring, complaining and disobedience of the Israelites that led to forty years of wandering in the wilderness.
- The Hebrew title for this book is "ln the Wilderness."
Content
- Instructions for Camping and Marching: Numbers 1:1-10:10
- Numbers 2:2(NKJV) "Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems (flag or banner) of his father's house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.
- 1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
|
North Camp |
East Camp |
South Camp |
West Camp |
|
Dan |
Judah |
Reuben |
Ephraim |
|
Asher |
Issachar |
Simeon |
Manasseh |
|
Naphtali |
Zebulun |
Gad |
Benjamin |
|
Total: 157,600 |
Total: 186,400 |
Total: 151,450 |
Total: 108,100 |
- Sinai to Moab: Numbers 10:11-21:35
- Numbers 10:11-12 (NKJV) Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony. And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys, then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Spies sent out: Numbers 13:1-14:45
- Balaam and Balak: Numbers 22:1-25:18
- Balak hires Balaam to come and curse the Israelites
- Instructions for Conquering and Possessing the Promise Land: Numbers 26:1-36:13
- The appointing of a new leader: Joshua- Numbers 27:12-23
- Christ in the book of Numbers
- Christ the Rock and Provider
- Numbers 20:8(NKJV) Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals."
- 1 Corinthians 10:4(NKJV) and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
- King Jesus
- Numbers 24:17(NKJV) I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.
- Balaam's prophecy concerning the future rule and reign of Jesus
Return to Leviticus
Proceed to Deuteronomy
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